Old pictures of Portsmouth

1940

One-room schoolhouse

c. 1943

Local grocery

c. 1957

downtown

1913

Escape from jail

1914

A family at their newly-built log cabin

1946

coal loader at Inland Steel

1946

Harry Fain, coal loader

1938

Librarian delivering books in the mountains of Kentucky

1968

RFK meeting with the locals

1953

John Price

1935

Miners waiting for the Consolidated Coal Company bus

1940

Members of the Primitive Baptist Church

1939

Kentucky National Guard

1939

A group of miners in Harlan County during a strike

1944

Bill Moses family

1946

Typical housing and street.

1946

Typical housing and street.

c. 1890

men gathering during the feuds

c. 1930

A traveling grocery store

1917

Butter-making

1920

Boone Tavern

1916

Pilot View School

1910

Thanksgiving Day Women's Basketball

1916

Ronald Lowe and his two brothers "topping" tobacco

1941

Photograph of bridesmaid

c. 1919

COAL MINER

1939

A group touring Cudjo's Cave

1864

134th Illinois Regiment

c. 1940

Williams family in their root cellar

1907

HAMILTON FEMALE COLLEGE

1883

First electric trolley in Lexington

1946

Joyland Park

c. 1860

Lexington Light Infantry on parade in Cheapside

1948

Miss Mabel Masters' Second Grade Class

1890

Kentucky police force

c. 1931

The Sears and Roebuck store

c. 1954

the Phoenix Hotel

1890

Gratz Park

1940

Rounding up the staked tobacco to head to the barn.

1928

FLOOD

1939

May Day Parade in downtown